Debunking the myth of forward-looking carnivores
I had a conversation last weekend, can’t remember how it kicked off but it was said that we (that is, humans) are born carnivorous. I said no we’re not, we’re born omnivorous. At that point, the person I was chatting with waved a hand in front of her face and pointed at her eyes. “Eyes at the front,” she said. “Not on the sides.”
This is an old, tired myth that is still supported in some scientific circles in defiance of the facts not fitting the theory even among today’s lifeforms, let alone the fossil record.
tags: carnivores, chickens, choices, dinosaurs, ethics, food, fossils, lies, myths, omnivores, politics, prehistory, propaganda, vegans, vegetariansThe Great Disconnect and how to take the first steps towards living for real
We live in times that are, from one perspective, not particularly unique for all the technological veneer glossing over our daily existence. We are still flesh and blood, the same species that once lived in trees and went on to build stone circles, churches, shining office blocks. We have always had problems to overcome. But somewhere between the stone circles and the churches we started to lose our connection to the planet, and by the time the towers went up we’d altogether forgotten that we once lived in harmony with nature, and were intimately familiar with her rhythms.
tags: ancestors, depression, disconnect, dysfunction, environment, humanity, leadership, prehistory, society, the matrix
